A good rant by formerly “The Linux Gamer”, Gardiner Bryant on the Mozilla-AI situation.
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Brave is just as guilty of this as Mozilla, and they need to get just as much attention and public outcry/pushback on the AI push from the community as Firefox/Mozilla is getting. I like both Brave and Mozilla because both give two really good browsers focused on privacy and security, but their AI shenanigans with both Leo and Firefox AI need to be both an opt-in option and separate from the core codebases of the browsers themselves. AI needs to be an optional tool that users must deliberately choose to install and use, not be an object deeply embedded and baked in with a supposed “setting” that can “disable” it.
There have been so many videos on yet another Mozilla fiasco. I didn’t want to inundate the forum with it all again so didn’t post any. It’s business as usual while enshittification (as I see it at-least) continues with Firefox.
Yeah, this is the last post of the Mozilla AI thing that I will be sharing here as well. I just thought that Gardiner Bryant’s take on the topic was interesting enough that others may find useful as well. I also wanted to again bring awareness and attention to Brave as well, even though they have had their Leo AI in their browser for the last couple of years, because they have been pushing AI just as hard as Mozilla is preparing to do. I just think that both of them need to get equal attention and coverage on the AI situation, since they are the only two groups that make browsers specifically with a focus on providing privacy in the browser space. Despite this, most people seem to be paying more attention to only Mozilla.
Yeah I’m watching the video as I write this.
I have the same grievances with Brave. Honestly, Orion is making a lot more sense to use everyday along with Mullvad and Helium. Also, I use any browser ephemerally as long as I can intall the extensions I want so technically I can get away from using Orion but not available on Linux so that’s a dealbreaker as I spend the majority of time on my Atomic Fedora and the other on macOS.
I don’t know.. the browsers are becoming a point of contention. For now, I’m sticking with Firefox and others mentioned for different use cases as I’ve compartmentalized them so still. Not much I can do here.
But this is not good, to say the least.
“Set phasers to maximum stupid” lol
Let me know what your thoughts are once you get done watching it. I hope that you liked it. I honestly failed to find anything that I disagreed with personally when I watched it, and the arguments that he gave can be applied to AI and privacy-respecting/focused browsers in general, beyond Mozilla.
Yeah it was really good holistic commentary on it. Different than others and made a lot of sense too. A little long but it drove in the point well.
Mozilla is a cursed organization.
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